All Things English...in Mrs. Matherly's Classroom



ANAGRAMS – Long Way Down Reread the following: “Our Bedroom: A Square Yellowy Paint “Two beds: one to the left of the door, one to the right.Two dressers: one in front of the bed to the left of the door, one in front of the bed to the right.In the middle, a small TV.Shawn’s side was the left: perfect, almost.Mine, the right: pigsty, mostly.Shawn’s wall had: a poster of Tupac, a poster of Biggie.My wall had: an anagram I wrote in messed-up scribble with a pencil in case Mom made me erase it: SCARE = CARES.” (p36) “Anagram is when you take a word and rearrange the letters to make another word. And sometimes the words are still somehow connectedex: CANOE = OCEANSame letters, different words, somehow still make sense together, like brothers.” (p37)Answer the following questions:1. How are the words “ocean” and “canoe” “somehow connected”?2. How are the words “scare” and “cares” connected?3. How are anagrams “like brothers”?4. What does the choice of wall decorations reveal about the values and personalities of Will and Shawn?5. How are the posters of Biggie and Tupac related to Will’s anagram of “SCARE = CARES”?6. Who is more like an ocean and who is more like a canoe, Will or Shawn? Why?Now it is your turn to compose your own poem using an anagram as the thematic heart. First, brainstorm in your IN possible anagrams or use an Anagram Generator (Google it). I encourage you to write about yourself or your understanding of a close friend or family member. Then, compose your own poem using an anagram as the thematic heart. WORKSHOP: Using Reynold’s anagram poems as exemplars “Our Bedroom: A Square Yellowy Paint” (36), “Anagram” (37), “Confessed” (295), “Anagram No. 1” (88): ALIVE = A VEIL“Anagram No. 2” (137): FEEL = FLEE “Anagram No. 3” (169): COOL = LOCO“Anagram No. 4” (188)]: CINEMA = ICEMAN2857500220980TEACHER MODELCheatersThis summer solsticeI watch my neighbors leave in the dawn,gripping coffee and courageto meet the workday requirements all over again.I slowly turn from the window,still enslippered. No urgencyat all. Cosiest.Having not even set the alarmthe night before, no intentionsof setting it this night,I feel guilty at my lax, somehowstill undeserving of all this lawlessness.TEACHERS = CHEATERSAt the close of the workshop time,00TEACHER MODELCheatersThis summer solsticeI watch my neighbors leave in the dawn,gripping coffee and courageto meet the workday requirements all over again.I slowly turn from the window,still enslippered. No urgencyat all. Cosiest.Having not even set the alarmthe night before, no intentionsof setting it this night,I feel guilty at my lax, somehowstill undeserving of all this lawlessness.TEACHERS = CHEATERSAt the close of the workshop time,Anagram Brainstormteacher cheatergarden dangerDog Godlove voleescape peacesrules luresreading grainedInvite students to share their poems or—minimally—their central governing anagrams. Those who don’t share their whole poems should be prepared to explain how their anagram reveals a key insight about the character they focus on in their poem. ................
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